Where are all the bytes going?

Corn · Post by **Corn** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:25 pm

I fired up my computer 40 minutes ago and right after I logged on I was called away by the wife to do man stuff around the house. Upon arriving back at my computer I happened to notice alot of network activity. I was somewhat stymied by the fact that when I tried to check the status of the internet connection in the network connections properties, it would load then immediately disappear. Strange.

Checking the network bridge status reveals that I've sent over 2MB of data over the network in the 40 minutes my computer was sitting idle. I find this to be somewhat shocking. Any way to tell what's being sent and where it's going? Inquiring minds want to know!

I'm running windows xp professional and have installed the most recent version of zone alarm. I'm sitting behind a dlink 614+ wireless router (connected to a lan port, not wireless on this machine).

Thanks y'all.

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:13 pm

was windows messenger on? Email program? AIM/Trillian? f@h?

Corn · Post by **Corn** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 9:43 am

Negative, nothing running at all......

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 10:51 am

I'm sitting behind a dlink 614+ wireless router

is the wireless portion enabled? if so...do you have encryption set up? other people can jump on and grab an IP and surf if you don't have it encrypted...not that they will get into your pc (most likely not), but that could explain traffic.

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Corn · Post by **Corn** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 2:54 pm

Encryption is enabled, logs state no wireless connections other than my wife's computer and my Ipaq.

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 3:36 pm

ha tom
your on comcast right ~
comcast has your signal relayed back and forth to them all the time !
it lets them know if there lines are down ~

xsiled · Post by **xsiled** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 4:19 pm

caption: im alive and im stealing your bandwidth HAHAHAH!

TheManiacal1 · Post by **TheManiacal1** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:12 am

drop a packet sniffer on your box and monitor your traffic for awhile to get a better sense of what's going on.